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New Horizons in Sephardic Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

New Horizons in Sephardic Studies

This book contains the most recent research in the intrinsically interdisciplinary field of Sephardic Studies. It provides new insights into Sephardic history, culture, folklore, languages, music, and literature from both new and established international scholars.

The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-24
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Politics of Female Households is the first collection that seeks to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of early modern court studies. Presenting evidence and analysis of the multifarious ways in which ‘women above stairs’ shaped the European courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it argues for a re-assessment of their political influence. The cultural agency of ladies-in-waiting is viewed in the reflection of portraiture, pamphlets and masques: their political dealings and patronage are revealed through analysis of letters, family networks, career patterns, gift exchange and household structures, as well as their activities in the fields of intelligence...

Biography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 626

Biography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1872
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Avila of Saint Teresa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

The Avila of Saint Teresa

The Avila of Saint Teresa provides both a fascinating account of social and religious change in one important Castilian city and a historical analysis of the life and work of the religious mystic Saint Teresa of Jesus. Jodi Bilinkoff's rich socioeconomic history of sixteenth-century Avila illuminates the conditions that helped to shape the religious reforms for which the city's most famous citizen is celebrated. Bilinkoff takes as her subject the period during which Avila became a center of intense religious activity and the home of a number of influential mystics and religious reformers. During this time, she notes, urban expansion and increased economic opportunity fostered the social and ...

Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1572

Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1910
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)

Explores Natalie Zemon Davis's concept of history as a dialogue, not only with the past, but with other historians.

Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme Or Catilla Del Oro
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140
New Method of Studying History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 974

New Method of Studying History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1728
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopaedia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1046

Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopaedia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1883
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The English Cyclopaedia: Division. Biography. 6v. and Suppl
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 618

The English Cyclopaedia: Division. Biography. 6v. and Suppl

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1872
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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